Science

Tug or fetch? Some dogs sort toys by how they are used

Dogs that easily learn the names of toys might also mentally sort them by functi...

Why are so many young people getting cancer?

Diagnoses for several cancers before age 50 have been increasing rapidly since t...

Cancer patients froze reproductive tissue as kids. Now ...

Saving reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer before adolescence could...

Brains don’t all act their age

A slew of new research attempts to zero in on what happens as our brains get old...

A new drug shows promise for hard-to-treat high blood p...

Results from a large trial suggest baxdrostat could provide a new option for peo...

COVID-19 is still a threat, but getting a vaccine is ha...

Vaccination is still important to ward off the worst of the coronavirus. Three e...

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage...

ADHD is officially a disorder of deficits in attention, behavior and focus. But ...

A new book explores the link between film giant Kodak a...

In Tales of Militant Chemistry, Alice Lovejoy traces how film giants Kodak and A...

The oldest known mummies have been found — in Southeast...

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as ...

Salt can turn frozen water into a weak power source

Experiments reveal that when slabs of salty ice are strained, electricity is gen...

How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of t...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove...

Recycled glass could help fend off coastal erosion

Sand made from recycled glass can be mixed with sediment to make a medium for pl...

Scientists made a biological quantum bit out of a fluor...

Researchers could use quantum effects to develop new types of medical imaging in...

Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer

A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sle...

Future Martians will need to breathe. It won’t be easy

Asteroid impacts, microbes, mining: These are a few tactics engineers might one ...

Octopus arms are adaptable but some are favored for par...

Octopuses are ambidextrous, a new study finds, but they favor their front arms f...